Manure Management
The Delaware Nutrient Management Commission has released its 2012 Annual Report, documenting the progress Delaware farmers have made in reducing nutrient runoff. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Don’t miss Friday’s (May 17) webcast on mono-slope beef barns. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is receiving part of a $10 million federal grant to study greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farms. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Using grid soil sampling to guide manure application can be a profitable investment, is the conclusion from case studies based on eight Minnesota farms. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Kelsey Bruning, a senior in civil engineering at Iowa State University, placed third in the recent Ron Sheffield Memorial Student Poster Contest Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Research attempts to balance more efficient uptake during cows’ digestion of nitrogen feed to help reduce cattles’ flatulence responsible for methane. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
How much do you know about manure’s value on your farm? Take this quiz to find out. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A more comprehensive and consistent system for modeling phosphorus loss is now available, thanks to work by scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Death by manure pit – it may not be too common yet when it happens, it often takes more than one life. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Horse manure is gaining attention on the Morrisville State College campus – and not for use as a fertilizer. The waste is being considered as an energy source. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
An on-farm manure application field day will be held April 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cove Run Farm and the Hickory Environmental Center in Accident, MD. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
In the not-too-distant future, you could drive for miles on a road of pig manure, a highly refined byproduct of pig manure that a NC company. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Research on applying liquid livestock manure as a spring top-dress fertilizer to wheat has been ongoing in Ohio for several years. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Reducing phosphorus in dairy diets doesn’t change a cow’s productivity, but it does affect the environmental impact that cow might have, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialist. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Agricultural Research Service scientists at the Agroecosystems Management Research Unit in Lincoln, Neb., have been conducting some very thorough investigations on the microbes that dwell in cattle manure – what they are, where they thrive, where they struggle and where they may end up. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
While it was nutrient management legislation that originally generated an interest in the greater precision of manure application, now it’s the high price of fertilizer that has driven a renewed interest in today’s more innovative manure distributors. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Getting an accurate estimation of nitrous oxide and methane emissions from beef cattle feedlots is an increasing concern given the current and potential future reporting requirements for greenhouse gas emissions. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
It was a military idea at first – deflating the tires on army vehicles that landed on the beaches of Europe in the Second World War made it easier to drive them on the sand. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A University of Alberta ecologist says governments shouldn’t be wasting money on controlling nitrogen to stop algae blooms in lakes. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Michigan State may be the home of the Spartans, but it is also the home of the Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC). Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!